Signed by Governor Rick Snyder

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that limits the ability of a local government to regulate the terms and conditions of employment.

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that limits the ability of a local government to regulate the terms and conditions of employment.

Highlights:

• Prohibits a local government body from adopting, enforcing, or administering an ordinance, local policy, or local resolution that requires certain actions from an employer, including, but not limited to the following (Secs. 6-11):

• Increases wages higher than the state minimum;

• Pays wages or fringe benefits based the prevailing rates in the locality;

• Provides an employee with paid or unpaid leave time; or

• Participates in any educational apprenticeship or training program that is not required by state or federal law.

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that limits the ability of a local government to regulate the terms and conditions of employment.

Highlights:

• Prohibits a local government from adopting or enforcing a policy that regulates the relationship between an employer and its employees if such policy contains requirements that exceed those imposed by state or federal law (Sec. 4)

• Prohibits a local government from adopting or enforcing a policy that regulates the relationship between an employer and its employees in certain ways, including but not limited to, the following (Secs. 5-13):

• Requiring an employer to pay an employee a wage higher than the state minimum hourly wage rate;

• Requiring an employer to provide an employee paid or unpaid leave time;

• Requiring an employer or its employees to participate in an educational apprenticeship or training program; or

• Requiring the regulation of work stoppage or strike activity of employers and their employees.

• Specifies that the provisions of this bill do not prohibit a local government from adopting or enforcing a policy that prohibits employment discrimination (Sec. 15).

Full Bill Text